SOVIET TROOPS, INSTALLATIONS, AND PREPARATIONS IN LITHUANIA

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2011
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• Publication Date: December 1, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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;3ovis~, Tr'oops. tnsta_Uations, and
repa:''a tions in Lithuania
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:'here are no apparent signs in Lithuania that the Soviets are preparing
ta, Launch an attack themselves, Neither the MGB nor Soviet officers
even ay so, at leasts, not openly,-, Naturally,, they say they won the
last wa- and are now stronger than ever; and they boast that they will
be in Paris and London, and that capitalism is rotten.,, and :!oonwr or
1. ,t,er the Communists will rule the world.
t lit :ry training is carried on all the ti..me, simultaneously with and
in no less degree than training in Marxism=Leninism, Students have courses
of min; it,arv training
, on completion of which they gradfiate from the univer-
;.> _t y with a status to some extent equal to that of an NCO
:;:r? the towns;, people are called out for military exercises once or twice
a week during a three months period each year.. In the provincesx, the
people are called out for training exercises lasting from two to four weeks
on end.
'.' medical personnel (doctors and nurses) hav-? military rank, t nursing
~:..s .e. (Se~;tra miloserdiya ) h-s th' rank of lieutenant, Doctors? nurses,,
r>:I~d n edica,_ orderlies all have military cert., (Voyeriny bilet.).
y f,,t rs are a dninl:~tered by the Military Co- nissariats . In
auna ; the dm.inistrative yi.stricts, of which there are four or fives each
',)-,s its on l i itary Commissariat,, The kil_itary Commissariat to which the area
a.,ounc. .Kaunas is subordinate is located in Kaunas in Saiomeya Neris Str-et;,,
, th cres atU time there are considerable numbers of Soviet, Army men in
,Jth.ianiaF, but they are spread all over tha country in small units and it
is ;i_ ficult to say -:.here or how they are quartered, in billets,, dug-outs,
c).?' teats, In Kaunas (54-53;?l, 23-54E) itself, more officers than other
ranks are to be seen,, but on the whole there are plenty of military per=
sonnet;. everywhere,, although one does not see any large units,
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,-Ii- joie infant Y ymi:3.^ are stationed in the for'mer' barracks , of the
In the former MilitarY PO I ice barracksA near, the Hus r
13?._ I..,.ks, there are frontier guard tr s..(thosrs who wear green Cap+s)
bo ,i aved to oe tank units are in then former barracks in
S Thr e are some units stationed near the airfield at .1Kaunaa;.
,residence of the Lithuanian president (in the old jown) is
cut? ied soldiers' but it.does not appear to be used as head'
It is more likely that the, headquarters are in the. fore
.:c: eeas of the Lithuanian General Staff and' War Minietry9 in Gediminas
3i: t mo e:ients to the west,,' it' is believed that they are tarried out in
erred f un. to at a time and, by making use o,t' secon a y roads
There are no signs to be seen of any bu4.lding of fttificati.ons or any
c tear special miilit=7 preparations In and around Kaunas, fonstractions
of t1iia !find are believed to be in the Kaliningrad (54-13N#. 20a30E) areaq
.; Z i.rr t,e rsA?rh districts white cozsntitute the prohibited sonef, such
s :3P.k. ?wi? (54'581-,,, 23.401E) s, Pagegiai (55-O8Na 21,*53E)o etc.-.
i u. Po X13 Soviet military stores or depots are located behind the large saw
whicch is near the river on the south bank of the Nemunaso opposite
,S zo-cs=Ued Kaunas '-.'inter ?ortr, The river bank rises here to a good
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